Editing Kate Lockley (section)

==Writing and acting==

* Kate was originally conceived as a much darker character. In the unproduced episode "Corrupt," she was a detective deep undercover as a prostitute and addicted to drugs.{{Citation needed|date=January 2025}}
*Elisabeth Röhm said "I thought Kate was this incredibly powerful young woman who is fantastic at what she does, but at the same time, just a girl. There's a great line in ''[[Notting Hill (film)|Notting Hill]]'' when Julia Roberts says, 'I'm just a girl wanting a boy to love me.' I think that's a part of Kate and a part of everyone who is really great at what they do. They're actually just the girl or boy who's real and has the same problems as everybody else. She's this tough, smart cookie, but she just wants to be loved and she doesn't know how to do it."<ref name="Stokes, Mike 2001 pages 20-24">Stokes, Mike, "Beverly Hills Cop", from ''[[Buffyverse Magazines (UK)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer magazine]]'' #19 (UK, April 2001), pages 20-24.</ref>
*Röhm on the relationship between Kate and Angel: "I think that Kate and Angel are kind of meant for each other but in a way, you can see them become best friends."<ref name="Stokes, Mike 2001 pages 20-24"/>
* Röhm on her character's departure from ''Angel'': "Well, I was the first season of the show, I was part of the original cast and loved doing it, but by the second season, I had my own show on TNT called [[Bull (2000 TV series)|''Bull'']] so I had to go back & forth between my show & recurring on ''Angel'', and then after that I was offered ''[[Law & Order]]'' and Joss & I decided it would be impossible for me to go from New York (where I was a regular on ''Law & Order)'' to Los Angeles for ''Angel'' and we had a great opportunity for it to end dramatically, and it was very satisfying for both of us."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2ogys3/i_am_actress_elisabeth_r%C3%B6hm_ask_me_anything/|title=r/IAmA - I am actress Elisabeth Röhm - ask me anything!|website=reddit|date=6 December 2014 |language=en|access-date=2018-08-16}}</ref>